A WELSH mother will tonight make an emotional plea for support as she fights a transworld battle to regain the custody of her seven-year-old twins.

Jane Davies hasn't seen her children for almost two years. But it's no ordinary tug of love, as her children are now living on the other side of the world - on the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean.

She claims that her ex-husband grabbed the twins from her, and that he's denied her any access at all to the children. Since Noa and Aisha were taken away from her, Ms Davies has been battling to re-establish contact with her children. But even though there have been several court rulings in her favour, the authorities in Ecuador (to which the Galapagos belong) have failed to reunite the mother with her little twins.

On tonight's S4C current affairs programme, Y Byd ar Bedwar, she accuses the British Embassy and the Foreign Office of doing very little to help her. "I'd like the embassy to listen, hear and see that it's very difficult for me. I'm on my own here."

Just five years ago, Ms Davies, 42, from Carmarthen, was living a millionaire lifestyle. She and her then husband, Federico Angermeyer, owned several large sailing boats. Tourists flocking to see the wildlife on the famous islands were prepared to pay thousands of pounds to travel on one of their luxury yachts. But when life turned sour, Jane Davies fled to mainland Ecuador with her children.

She claims that her ex-husband has taken the children twice. The first time, he took the children away from her at a New Year's Eve party at his restaurant, Angermeyer Point. He refused to return the children for a week, and she had to gain a court order and the help of the local police to get the twins back.

"Federico Angermeyer had locked himself and the little ones in his bedroom, and he was shouting that I had come to get the children to put them in prison."

She says that her ex-husband initially refused to let the police into his property, and they had to scale an eight-foot wall to gain access.

Just a month later, in February last year, her ex-husband took the children away once again, following a row. Despite her visiting the Galapagos Islands with the police, he managed to evade all attempts she made to even see the children.

"I've tried phoning several times, but the situation was so difficult. He'd shout at me, it was a horrendous situation, and I felt that it put the children in an uncomfortable situation."

"I think the world of them, and I'm never going to give up. They're in my heart every day. I wanted to have the children, I fought to have them , and they really are lovely children. I can't see that it makes any sense for me or the children to separate us."

Mr Angermeyer is one of the islands' most famous sons. His parents were among the first settlers on the Galapagos, having fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s. He claims that Ms Davies is an alcoholic and is mentally ill. A month before they were officially divorced, he authorised her internment in a mental hospital against her will, where she was given highly controversial electric shock treatment. Last April, he managed to persuade a judge to grant him temporary custody of the children, pending a full hearing.

But Ms Davies has since been given the all clear by the Ecuadorian authorities' forensic psychologists. They said that she was not suffering from any kind of mental illness, other than an understandable anxiety about the future of her twins. The case has been thrown from one judge to another for the past 20 months, and she's losing patience with the Latin American legal system.

Y Byd ar Bedwar returned to the Galapagos Islands with Ms Davies, to witness her latest attempt to make contact with the twins.

When she turned up to see the children at school, there was an angry phone call from Mr Angermeyer. Then his sister and new wife rushed to school, followed almost immediately by the police. Ms Davies was told that the children had been kept home for the day.

Mr Angermeyer had initially agreed to be interviewed for the programme. But when the team went as arranged to his restaurant, he failed to show up, and later said he'd had legal advice not to participate in the programme.